However, correspondence that is part of a court record shows that Dale repeatedly demanded Bennett refrain from doing autopsies on children. In a letter from 2000, Dale said he had reviewed three deaths Bennett "opined were ... due to 'shaken-slammed baby syndrome.' "
"It is my opinion that your continuing to conduct postmortem examinations of unexplained deaths of infants unnecessarily risks both wrongful prosecution of a caretaker and jeopardizes prosecution of the perpetrator if you are to encounter a truly injured child," Dale said in the letter.
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"It is my opinion that your continuing to conduct postmortem examinations of unexplained deaths of infants unnecessarily risks both wrongful prosecution of a caretaker and jeopardizes prosecution of the perpetrator if you are to encounter a truly injured child," Dale said in the letter.
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